Anyone wants to place a bet how many pages this thread can carry on? Mine gamble would be somewhat around 11 (when folks on canonicity thread get wind (as I see you already started to) of what's going on.
So, thanks to bombadil for posing such a provoking question!
In the interim, I would simply state: no, Eru was not a sadist (still more much was already said by previous participants)
And go on watching what happens next (and after that, and after what happens after that etc etc
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cheers